The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
Tending to cut or tear.
An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
A very large wave.
The slack part of a sail.
A paving stone; a flagstone.
A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
To make something into a slab.